Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-01
EOMAN'S LOVE.

Untrue That = Han nay Win Is by Per.
sistent Tf1eri, No Matter What She May
Say at frs?
Theodore Ninton in Milwaukee Wisconsin.
"S0mbody once said never remen-
Der names-that any woman without q
positive hump can marry any man she
plesses. I believe that any man even
with hump can marry any woman ne
plesses"
Amurmur OF disspprobation arose from
the petticosted listeners.
"And the only requisite is persistence,
with some lutte measure of judgment"
TIE murmur grew to q clsmUr, but the
speaker wss also 8 woman, Snd very
bright one at that. she waited until the
tumult of Indignation and ejaculation had
subsidized and then preacbzd Us the follow
ing little sermon from the above asser-
ton as a text:
"0l course | cannot make this an abso-
Lutte statement, but 1t 10 very general
rule, snd IS such hiss no more tnsn the
orthodox number of exceptions. Once in
s8hile woman cannot be won by merely
dOg-like following; spd if two men
cASnCe TO set their 3 f ctiOps on the same
OBJECT one of them Will eventually have to
yieId-unIess they 60 to UEan inverted
tnOughtfully); but that does not pertain
tothe subject.
"Ususlly msn has bat to get his eye
upon the gosl and then steadily pur- ue 1t
through thick and thin, veal and woe,
aeVlsung only enough to make food for
reelection, slowing up only enough TO get
AEesder Tor a fresh start, 8Dd sometime
ne Is bound TO get there II may take
yesrS. He may lead 10 the altar anything
onI girllsh bride, but the game, such SIS
Il IS Is MS, AID bound to be his.
Not one woman in 8 Thousand can
ElILSEand constant, enduring affection.
one may personally have no prediction
LOT The msn, and her sense may De alto
getaer on the other side of the scales, out
i Ne tells her she is the one woman in
Tue world, snd continues TO tell her, by
"oTdS when convenient, by actions al
ways, ne will soon have a place in her
emouons that nc other man hiss or can
nave In fact (conndeatinllY) l believe
mai Woman's love is generally nothing
Out reflection. Otherwise how is SHE
10y 81 SLotAOuLSO III LAC mSA G1S
mstes with? She has no free choice in the
mst'er. She cannot sele CT what she natu-
ISsIy likes and admires, bat must take
W1at Is off-red. Thus l believe that
nlAe man usually marries s
WOMAN whom he is first attracted
|" o. admiration, womsn's at
Geamsnt has very seldom that basis
AIIer marriage, however, the affection O!
ne Vile who took him because he alone
v1efed himself is by no means less than
IlSt OF the husband who chose her from
@uong 10000. On the contrary 1t is un-
igues.lonaoly deeper, more ferVent, longer
t'ee. But it is not founded on the same
ASS II has its roots, not in the mans
ttH'ues aud attractions, but in his feelings
tUt herself. She sdores him because hi
n;st adored her-a fAttering illustration
u our lacS Of vanity you see.
NOW, my friends, none of you cal
Isny this. There is no one of you bu
nuows that the moment You find out :
Ia. Ian Is IN love with you ne acquires 81
So0ed interest in your eyes: when ht
.o%s you are an angel you discover tina
&c mas good taste, st least; and wher
-e signs he will die without you
~! sSU realize, for the first time, prob
SG,y' what the body polite might become
~i.lOut him. In short, If he is in low
IN IN you. you are to certain extent, anC
pstasps only temporarily at first in love
"''A MN; but II his ardor continues